Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.5023

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6) The literary life of Vyāsa. Towards the close of his life Vyāsa again entered the caves of Himālayas. Vyāsa who had steered through a very wide and rough sea of life, was in a position to understand clearly the various sides of human life. In the mind of that sage, who sat in deep contemplation in the eternally silent caves of the Himālayas, the events of his past life began to line up one after the other. From that inward instigation the Purāṇetihāsas (the Myths and legends) took form. It might have been during this period that Vyāsa divided the Vedas and composed Purāṇas and Upa-purāṇas.